Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos
March Meet Video: What It’s Like To Be The Driver Of An Exploding Front Engine Top Fuel Car
The boys on the crew of the Mr Boston nostalgia top fuel car had a rough go of it in Bakersfield during the 2013 March Meet. The car never did what they wanted it to do and ultimately they suffered a...
The Registration Plate On This V8, RWD Hyundai Excel Says It All: “WHY NOT”
I don’t want to hear one word about this Hyundai Excel being LS-swapped. Not even from the LS hate crowd. Using the logic that it’s wrong to LS-swap a car that didn’t originally...
Corrupting Power Levels! Check Out The Finalists From Powercruise’s Powerskid Competition!
There isn’t one of the cars you will see in this video that I would not do bad things behind the wheel of. Not one. Not even the Mitsubishi sedan…I would gladly plant my carcass behind...
Classic YouTube: Tuff Truck Racing From The Pacific Northwest, Complete With Thrills, Spills, And A Celebration Injury!
We joke about thrashing the life out of a beater often, but how many of you have actually done it? We’re not talking a mild romp on a dirt road, either…we mean thrash, with extreme...
If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: This Porsche 918 Spyder Owner Puts The Hypercar To Work!
It’s easy to shrug off supercars and hypercars as nothing more than six and seven-figure rolling testaments to obscene spending and the like, and that may be true, but let’s be real for a...
An Aussie Burnout For For The Underdog Crowd, Complete With A Blower Off To One Side! This Screaming Six-Cylinder Holden Ute Rules!
There is something so sweet about Ben Falk’s Holden HG ute killing it on the skidpad. Is it the burnout itself…no, that seems to be a skill every Aussie gearhead learns as they grow up....
Morning Melody: Enjoy The Spine-Tingling Sounds Of A Lexus LF-A Making Dyno Pulls!
Aside from the deliciously violent noises a good old V8 makes, the exhaust song that I could listen to over and over again comes from the Lexus LF-A. I first heard this car at the 2010 SEMA show, and...
Classic YouTube: Off-Roading Some Funky Subarus In Washington State
Confession: until about five years ago, I didn’t know what to call the cars you are about to see. All I knew them as were “Subaru wagons”. They weren’t Leones or Loyales or...
Classic YouTube: Snow Donuts And Drifting In A Subaru SVX, Because All-Wheel-Drive Drifting Looks Awesome!
I’m sure that at least 80% of readers are going to roll their eyes, mutter something that involves my name, the phrase “crap car” (or something like it) and move on, and...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Strap Into The Time Bomb Camaro For Some Half-Mile Runs At Ocala!
The Time Bomb Camaro, driven by brothers David and Mike Matyjasik, has been a favorite car of ours here at BangShift for years now. We’ve seen plenty of footage of this black beast ripping...
There’s More Than Just Burnout Contests! Watch As This Holden Caprice Competes In “Driving Events”!
There’s a reason that I’m so enamored with Australian motorsports, even at the grassroots levels: these guys don’t baby their cars! We’ve seen their drag racing, which is...
TaxTheRich Are Back With A Ferrari F40 GT And A Little Something Called “Farmkhana”
It’s been quite some time since we had seen or heard anything from the group TaxTheRich. If you remember, these are the guys who take the automotive elite and proceed to hoon the daylights out...
Like Your Tractors Loud And Fast? We’ve Got A Collection Of Them Just For You!
Brian Lohnes loves tractors, just like he loves big, lumbering trucks and anything else that is utilitarian in nature. I don’t see the draw, personally. They are cool in their own right, but...
Nothing But A Scratch! This Suzuki Samurai Goes For A Quick Roll In The Grass!
The Suzuki Samurai is an interesting little vehicle. It is like a scaled-down Jeep CJ in many ways, and that’s not by accident: the Suzuki Jimny was intentionally built by Suzuki to be a...